Recent Projects

EYFS joins the Maker Festival

This is the second whole-school festival in collaboration with the University of Sheffield. Utilising skills gained across the year, the children contributed to an outdoor celebration festival, displaying items made using their developing skills. The children in Nursery displayed their skills in fixing and joing with cardboard and linked this with learning about animals. They each produced their own animal using a range of different joining techniques, for example flange, treasury tag and split pin. The children also developed cutting skills using a range of different scissors, knives and MakeDo saws. The children's learning about different animals and insects was supported through the reading of classic children's books including Dear Zoo, Walking Through the Jungle and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

The Gruffalo

The children in FS2 went to the local Buck Woods looking for the Gruffalo, along with their parents/carers/grandparents. After following the tracks left behind by the owl, snake and fox they came across a creature with turned out toes and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose!  Oh dear, oh no! It was the...

Gruffalo Crumble

The children in FS2 were so familiar with the story of the Gruffalo that they invited their special adults to hear them retell it with their teacher in our school orchard (which has been  planted and tended to by the AEBA volunteers).  Here they learned about fruit producing trees, sampled some delicious apple crumble then gathered some apples and pears to make their own versions of Gruffalo crumble.  The children's adults took some home to make with them later whilst the children delighted in adding Gruffalo character illustrations to bowls from which they could enjoy the fruits of their labour.

Titch

After many discussions about how we change over time, we shared the story of 'TItch' by Pat Hutchins.  

This inspired us to plant a sunflower seed and see how that changes over time and whether or not it grows taller than us. 

Beyond the 4 Walls

The children have been working closely with Dom and Buddy the dog to explore the natural world around them.   This has supported them to make  progress across the prime areas and particularly with their the personal, social and emotional development.